Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

of Computer Science curriculum. A central issue within computernetwork education is the hands-on laboratory-based approach versus the traditional in-calllecture-based approach. Traditionally, computer networks courses have not provided studentswith hands-on access to networking equipment and software. However, due to increasingpopularity of vendor-based courses as components of undergraduate curricula, students now havethe opportunity to study a more practical approach and hence program networking devices(switches, routers). Furthermore, many students are studying networking and internetworking Page 9.134.1Proceedings of the 2004 American

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

material tostudents. The adoption of Cisco VBC can result in a number of advantages for participatingacademies: • The material is supplied free of charge to participating educational institutions worldwide. • Course material is provided on-line essentially 24 hours a day for seven days a week, and is supplemented by a large selection of books 12, 13, 9, 18, simulators, examination questions and other learning material. • The material is continually updated to reflect rapid technological change. • Laboratory equipment is provided at substantial discount. • Equipment provided through the program can be used for other, non-vendor based units, and for research purposes. • Staff are trained and up-skilled

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Visser; Carrie Steinlicht; Teresa Hall

well-considered investments in laboratory technology, recruitment of skilled faculty and staff, andsuccessful partnering with industry. Outreach and collaboration with regional manufacturers byMNET program faculty have been primarily accomplished as a result of the Great Plains RapidPrototyping Consortium (GPRPC).The GPRPC was launched in 2000 by three industrial partners and South Dakota StateUniversity and supported by consortium partner investments and a Partnership For Innovationgrant from the National Science Foundation (#0090422). The mission of the GPRPC is tosupport educational activities, product development, research and technology exchange forengineering and technology students and consortium members by developing a rapid

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Josephson; Nader Vahdat; K.C. Kwon

materials science Senior Year – process control, senior design project, senior laboratory, technical chemicalengineering electives such as petroleum operationsStudents would learn programming skills during their freshman year and make active use of theirskills in isolated instances throughout the remainder of their undergraduate academic career. Thesenior design project would be the course most likely requiring computer programmingexpertise.During the 1980s and 1990s the computing resources available to chemical engineeringundergraduates expanded dramatically. Universities began requiring that all students have theirown personal computer (Drexel started this practice in 19832). Even those universities that didn’thave this requirement

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Yellamaraju; Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

project was funded by the U.S. Department of Education Fund for theImprovement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), and was carried out over the last four years.The assessment was carried out under the auspices of UMR’s Laboratory for InformationTechnology Evaluation (LITE), and guided by the LITE model for evaluation of learningtechnologies. The fundamental premise of the model is that evaluation should consist of thetriangulation of multiple research methodologies and measurement tools. Five representativeevaluation studies, consisting of eight experiments, are presented here. The studies range frominitial research consisting of basic experimentation and usability testing; to applied researchconducted within the class room; to a large multi

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay C. Dee; Glen Livesay

views (n=12; 29%). The least frequently cited reasons for leaving the School of Engineering were: 1. I want to attend a school that is closer to my family (0) 2. I want to live in another part of the country. (0) 3. I don’t find my courses challenging enough. (0) A portion of the exit survey asked questions regarding types of instructional activitiescharacteristically linked to different learning styles. For example, a student who prefers activerather than reflective learning, and who felt their needs were not being met in the engineeringcurriculum, might be expected to choose the survey option “I want to take classes which give memore opportunities to: do hands-on experiments and laboratories.” On the

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

relatively low temperature, and upon exposure to some highertemperature will return to their original shape. Only those alloys that can recover asubstantial amount of strain, or that generate significant force upon shape transformation,are of commercial interest. One such material is a Nickel-Titanium alloy called Nitinol(NiTi). This particular alloy has useful electrical and mechanical properties, long fatiguelife, and high corrosion resistance. This novel material has a very high resistivity thatenables it to be actuated electrically by Joule (resistance) heating, making it an appealingtype of actuator for numerous applications. In 1962, William Buehler at the NavalOrdinance Laboratory discovered a binary alloy composed of equi-atomic Nickel

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Case Studies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Manion; Eli Fromm; Jay Bhatt

9.552.2activities in the students’ curriculum (e.g., laboratories in the sophomore years.) Moreover, the“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education"choice of this model reflects our belief that the combination of ethics instruction relating toprofessionalism and individual responsibility, along with extended treatment of themes, conceptsand categories for dealing with the social, political, and environmental context of engineeringpractice is an effective curricular model for responding to the ABET Criteria 2000.EPED 231 and EPED 231All sophomore students in Drexel’s College of Engineering (CoE

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Caswell; Clifton Johnston

clearly identifies design problems and therefore their inherent wickednessas one of the cornerstones of the engineering profession. However, the entire post-Grintercurriculum shifted to the study of tame problems. Something was clearly amiss. By the time,the momentum of the changes being introduced through the wholesale adoption of the Grinterframework was far too advanced to redirect. The only course of action was to let the changestake place and to seek to revitalize design through isolated coursework. To this end a largenumber of design textbooks have been produced over the years in an effort to place designeducation within the lecture, tutorial, laboratory framework. However, despite the best effortsof a small but dedicated group of

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

-upinvestment by CAST and RIT; external funding is the life-blood of all scholarship, especially inthese times of budget restraints within the academy.Two types of grants are generally available to ET faculty: Equipment or laboratory improvementgrants and Research grants. Limited experience gained so far from the few successful grantproposals in CAST indicates that equipment or laboratory improvement grant proposals must betied or connected strongly to students, curriculum, faculty and/or industry in order to be able tosecure operating funds for the lab, otherwise, it becomes very difficult to make the grant work.Figure 1. Entry Page to the CAST Scholarship Website

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Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationScientific Principle 5: Replicate and generalize across studies Replication and generalization help to clarify the limits of theories and inferences and arean important component of scientific research. Replication refers to the ability to repeat aninvestigation in more than one setting and achieve the same results. This is common practice inSTEM disciplinary research in order to confirm findings. When similar results can not begenerated, then the entire research project is in doubt. Consider, for example, the cold fusionresults announced by one laboratory, but in the end, discredited because they could not bereplicated in

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Jacobson

Session 1432 Teaching Information Warfare with a Break-in Laboratory Dr. Doug Jacobson Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State UniversityAt present, Iowa State University is already a leader in computer security education and offersover twelve courses in information assurance. Iowa State University (ISU) promotes education,research, and outreach in information assurance through is Information Assurance Center1. Overtwo dozen faculty members from six academic departments work together in the InformationAssurance Center to explore the problems of securing information in application areas rangingfrom software to networks to

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim McCartney; Lynette Krenelka; John Watson; Dara Faul; Hossein Salehfar; Arnold Johnson

used in all DEDP classes at UND.BackgroundIn 1989, the School of Engineering and Mines at the University of North Dakota began delivering adistance education program through the Division of Continuing Education. Courses leading toBachelor of Science engineering degrees were offered to employees of 3M. The program was laterextended to employees of other member companies to form the Corporate Engineering DegreeProgram (CEDP). In 2001, this program was modified to serve other individual students, and itbecame the Distance Engineering Degree Program (DEDP) delivering chemical, electrical andmechanical engineering courses. To date the program has graduated 16 students, who completedlecture courses via videotape, and laboratories through on-campus

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

these courses include electricalcircuits, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, material balances, properties of materials, structuralmechanics and thermodynamics. Unlike the traditional approach, however, each of thefoundation courses includes a mix of these topics, presented in a variety of disciplinary contexts.A solid background is developed by touching key concepts at several points along the spiral indifferent courses, adding depth and sophistication at each pass. Each foundation course alsostresses the development of several essential skills, such as problem-solving, oral and writtencommunication, the design process, teamwork, project management, computer analysis methods,laboratory investigation, data analysis and model development. Students

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Jalkio; Christopher Greene

laboratory reports) that document their self-assessment.The portfolio of supporting documentation also provides a tool for the assessment of the course.Portfolios in general have been long discussed in the literature of assessment and compared toother assessment tools5. Since these portfolios are collected and maintained by the studentduring the semester and each is accompanied by an assessment written by the student, theseportfolios overcome several of the disadvantages described by previous authors6. In particular,these concerns include the time required for faculty evaluation of the portfolio, storage resourcesrequired if the portfolio is maintained by the institution and lack of compliance if the portfolio ismaintained by the student.This system

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fengfeng Zhou

. Activities are incorporated into lessons, demonstrations, laboratory exercises, and fieldexperiences. By doing these activities, students will experience authentic scientific andengineering research practices that require higher-order thinking skills and creative problem-solving skills. This will enable each student to develop a better understanding of science andengineering and hopefully foster a desire to advance his/her education in a related field.The authors, as participants of project STEP, developed a module to teach magnetism to seniorsat Hughes High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. The overall objective of this module was to increasestudent interest in physics and engage them in the learning process. To this end, technology wasincorporated in

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Scott

", Engineering Education, Dec. 1982, pp. 221-226TIMOTHY C. SCOTT is Associate Professor and Director of Laboratories in the Department of Mechanical andAerospace Engineering at the University of VirginiaKEVIN L. KNIGHT is Senior Electronics Technician in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineeringat the University of Virginia Page 9.1397.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Davis; Roman Stemprok; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

located inDenton, Texas. During this time it was possible to expand the program to include a Bachelor’sdegree Electronics Engineering Technology , a Master’s Degree in Engineering Technology, anda Masters degree in Business Administration. The program is entirely supported by the utilityand no state funds are involved in the program. The program has strong competition from non-accredited degree granting institutions. Methods of delivery vary with the course of instruction.For laboratory courses, the instructor will generally travel from campus to deliver the material atthe site; for lecture only courses, videoconference is frequently used. Efforts are underway toimport additional courses from other universities at the time of this writing.II

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

laboratories. He served asassociate dean for six years and as department chair for twelve years.He is the author of three textbooks, all published by the Prentice Hall Publishing Company, aunit of Pearson Education, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.1, 2, 3 His first book waspublished in 1972 and he has continued to generate new books and new editions since that time.The books are designed for undergraduate courses that emphasize the application of theprinciples of mechanical design.Design of Machine Elements SoftwareEach copy of the new 4th edition of Machine Elements in Mechanical Design includes a CD-ROM containing MDESIGN, an extensive set of 28 calculation modules developed by theGerman company, TEDATA. Derived from the very

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning: Instruction & Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

LearningThe CourseHow well the stated course objectives were fulfilled 4.25 (4) 4.50 (4)Quality of the course media (videos, CD-ROM, print material, etc) 4.50 (4) 4.50 (4)Effectiveness of course materials (textbook, handouts, videos, etc) inhelping you learn 4.50 (4) 4.50 (4)Value of the course assignments (homework, laboratory work, papers,etc) in helping you learn the course content 4.50 (4) 4.50 (4) Page 9.860.3 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Depew

research. Another important factor in the rate ofacceleration has been a reward system to encourage success in basic scientific discovery and thepublishing of these discoveries in journals and proceedings.While the pursuit of basic research is vitally important to our nation in maintaining a competitiveadvantage in developing innovative technology, we must not forget the important role of otheravenues of discovery. Moving scientific innovation from the laboratory to production requiresan ambitious agenda for applied engineering and technological research as well as a reward Page 9.823.2system to encourage its development

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Chen; Albert Peng; Daniel Jones

Technology Programs at CMUThe engineering technology programs at Central Michigan University (CMU) are designed toprepare students who aspire to careers in electronic, manufacturing, or mechanical areas7. Eachmajor requires a minimum of 24 semester credits in mathematics and science, 21 credits intechnology core that emphasizes hands-on laboratories, 21 credits in technology specializationthat emphasizes engineering science and design, and 9 credits in technical electives that studentscan use to strengthen their technical backgrounds in one of the areas.The students who wish to pursue one of the ET majors must be first admitted into the university.A typical student who receives a general admission would have a high-school GPA of 3.3 and

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lance Miller; Jack Waintraub

Educationpostsecondary educators, government and processional associations will be available. Pleasevisit the website, www.neteconline.org, frequently to find out more information and to getinvolved!Bibliographic Information1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 1993. Enriching the Undergraduate Laboratory Experience: 1992Undergraduate Program Directors Meeting. Chevy Chase, MD: Howard Hughes Medical Institute.2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 1994. Institutional Strategies for Enhancing Undergraduate ScienceEducation: 1993 Undergraduate Program Directors Meeting. Chevy Chase, MD: Howard Hughes MedicalInstitute.3 Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 1995. Expanding the Role of Science Departments: 1994 UndergraduateProgram Directors Meeting. Chevy Chase, MD: Howard

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Enger; Sudhir Mehta

Engineering Education (ASEE), Teacher of the Year award from the NDSU College ofEngineering and Architecture’s, and the Faculty Lectureship Award at NDSU. Earlier, he was named “The 1997North Dakota Professor of the Year” by the Carnegie Foundation and has received the Peltier Award for InnovativeTeaching from NDSU in 2000. He has also received the HP Award for Excellence in Laboratory Instruction in1999. Dr. Mehta and his colleagues have received the best paper/presentation awards from the ASEE in 2001, 1999,and 1995. Dr. Mehta received the Carnot Award for the best teacher of the year, four times, from the students of PiTau Sigma Society.Kathy Enger is a social sciences librarian at NDSU. She has a doctorate degree in Educational Leadership

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

the Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering and the College of Engineering for fabrication of test specimens andcalibration of the different instruments to be used. This included laboratories on the maincampus of the University of Cincinnati, as well as the Large-Scale Structural Test Facilitylocated at Center Hill, about two miles from the main campus. The remaining weeks of theresearch project dealt with analysis of moment-rotation results from previous experimentaltesting1, 2, as well as designing, fabricating and erecting the test set-up for full-scale testing of T-stub connections subjected to cyclic loading. Though specimens for four tests were designed andfabricated, but due to time limitation only one test was conducted at

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Justine Stiles; Ashly Middelberg; Farhad Reza; Subhi Bazlamit

conducting measurements of both components atdifferent temperatures. The British Pendulum Tester was used in a laboratory setup to measurethe two components of friction on test briquettes. To simulate the polishing of pavement surfaces Page 9.809.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationas a result of repeated application of wheel passes; the briquettes were subjected to cycles ofmechanical polishing using aluminum grit and a drill press equipped with a rubber-polishingdisc.Briquettes representing

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Muniram Budhu

thatis done the weight is shown. The experiment continues interactively with the student placing thewet soil in an oven and is completed when the student calculates the water content and thenanswers a quiz to test short-term knowledge retention. The student can then select a differentsoil and repeat the experiment to compare the water retention capacity of different soil types. Anexperiment on a single soil type as described above will take about 24 hours in a physical lab buton the computer its takes less than 5 minutes and the student obtains all the required knowledge.A physical experiment can then be conducted for the student to get the feel of a real soil andoperating in a physical lab if laboratory facilities are available

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electromechanical Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Rabiee

. Severallaboratory experiments pertaining to sequencer functions are assigned to the students during thecourse of an academic quarter. Student feedbacks have been very positive for integrating theirknowledge gained during the classroom lectures in the laboratory. Page 9.1357.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Programmable Logic Controllers; Principles and Applications, By John Webb and Ronald Reis, Fifth Edition, 2003, Published by Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.2

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

set at the early stages of theprogram will help the students to achieve their educational goals and personal achievements.With this in mind in fall 2000, three courses were identified to implement a testing sequencewe called the “ten minute quiz”. The courses areECET-100 ECET seminarECET-102 Electrical Circuit-1ECET-152 Electrical Circuit-ll.All the three courses are required for the program.Concept based objectives were written for all the courses and is used by the faculty whoteaches the courses. The grading criteria included the following.Homework 5%10 Minute Quiz 25%Tests (3) 30%Final (Comprehensive) 15%And the Laboratory 25%At the beginning of every class a ten minutes quiz was given to the students based on theconcepts that was taught

Conference Session

Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Okechi Egekwu

) laboratory at James Madison University as part Page 9.671.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyrightø 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationof an integrated security solution for a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)system. [6] CSA goes beyond traditional endpoint security solutions “by identifying andpreventing malicious behavior before it can occur, thereby removing potential known andunknown security risks that threaten enterprise networks and applications.” [7] Specificinnovative features of CSA include: ‚ Proactive defense